The Discourse community that I am writing about is immigrants entering a new country. I am going to write a letter to the mayor explaining the issues the immigrants deal with when entering the country and how the mayor can help deal with their problems.
Immigrants have many problems when entering a new country like the language barrier, employment, housing, raising children and more. When they are facing these problems it stresses them out because they have to deal with many major issues and not getting much help facing these problems.
With this letter I will be addressing the mayor the problems immigrants are facing and how he can help solve it. The mayor can assist by funding organizations to settle new immigrants.
The organizations will provide classes for the language barrier and teach them English. For school they can be a different organization funded and that organization will get kids started with school like signing them up for school, getting uniforms, helping them with homework and etcā¦ because the parents wouldnāt be able to help due to the language barrier.Ā
In addition, the mayor can fund employment agencies to help new immigrants secure whatever job is available. The employment agency can help immigrants secure a job because they usually have trouble speaking english.
For secure housing the mayor can assist by providing help to save affordable housing. New immigrants usually get low paying jobs and find it difficult to have a safe and comfortable place. With this help it would avoid scams from landlords and in noisy environments with too many families living together.
Accessing services such as medical mental health services are important to new immigrants. Help is needed for immigrants who need to see doctors and reach out for legal guidance when badly needed. Help is needed because there may be difficulty in speaking english problem taking times off there jobs and also limited transportationĀ .Immigrants need to know how to get help if exposed to violence.
Alex- This is a good issue but kind of big. Would you be able to focus on one of the many issues immigrants face? For example, could you just focus on accessing affordable housing or focus on just finding employment opportunities? Then, I wonder what you can say with regard to the problem that will make your audience care? Think about Wollstonecraft and Douglass and the way they make it clear to their audiences that it is in their interest to fix the problem they are discussing. Check in with me tomorrow during class before you start writing so that we can make sure you are on the right track and not dealing with too big an issue.